ETF comparison
GSLC vs VIG
Multi-Factor vs Dividend.
Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
143 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GSLC and VIG would leave roughly 35.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIG is 5 bps cheaper than GSLC. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for GSLC.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with GSLC vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
143 shared in total| # | Holding | In GSLC | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC | 7.00% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORP | 4.87% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC | 2.84% | 4.63% | 2.84% |
| 4 | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 1.17% | 3.93% | 1.17% |
| 5 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 1.10% | 4.07% | 1.10% |
| 6 | WALMART INC | 0.84% | 2.11% | 0.84% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.73% | 2.67% | 0.73% |
| 8 | LAM RESEARCH CORP | 0.71% | 1.58% | 0.71% |
| 9 | VISA INC | 0.70% | 2.45% | 0.70% |
| 10 | MASTERCARD INC | 0.61% | 2.00% | 0.61% |
| 11 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 0.59% | 1.98% | 0.59% |
| 12 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP | 0.56% | 1.83% | 0.56% |
Only in GSLC
293 total- NVIDIA CORP 7.87%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.78%
- ALPHABET INC 3.31%
- META PLATFORMS INC 2.14%
- ALPHABET INC 1.89%
- TESLA INC 1.28%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.10%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC 0.85%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC 0.68%
- EXXON MOBIL CORP 0.62%
Only in VIG
190 total- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 1.24%
- S&P Global Inc 0.54%
- Starbucks Corp 0.52%
- Mondelez International Inc 0.35%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.33%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 0.28%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.28%
- Arthur J Gallagher & Co 0.28%
- MSCI Inc 0.18%
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- GSLC vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 7.1%
- GSLC vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 6.6%
- GSLC vs SMLF · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF 3.5%
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- VIG vs DFUV · Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 34.0%
- VIG vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 33.5%
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- VIG vs DFLV · Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF 32.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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